Time travel is a rough topic for me. Hell, a chance to go back and save Brian, even if he doesn't know it and I don't wind up with him and can never return to the present, hell yes, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.

But that means I can't ponder time travel without all kinds of emotions overwhelming me and not worrying about little trifling details about the consequences of my going back and fucking with the timeline for my own ends with absolutely zero regards for what happens to the rest of you poor shits.

Hell, I don't even have to get Brian to crave the ability to do just that.

How could we trust anyone (human, alien, 'god') with that kind of power to fuck with reality ??

It's 'Crazy Eddie' to even try . . . .

Time travel to the past is impossible. The past doesn't exist. It is only a memory at best.

If time travel were possible, then it would exist and the theories under QM would be valid and the conservation of matter/energy would apply across the spectrum.

Does anyone here believe that the past exists?

I'm pretty sure if you (somehow) stopped time and 'rewound' time, you might go back in time, but it will rapidly and increasingly diverge from what you remember.

IOW, if you could go back, you aren't going back into the past you experienced, and I am thinking, the further back you go, the more and more different the past would get, which implies you are continuously experiencing different pasts. And if you stopped and then tried to get back to where you started, you're going to see even more divergence and you are never going to get back to THIS reality.

So, completing my thought, you simultaneously can and can't travel back in time. From your viewpoint, you are, but it's fucked up, and the further you go the more fucked up it gets, and for us stay at homes, you NEVER come back here, and you never impinge on the timeline we remember and are experiencing, so to us, you FAILED and in seven years, your relatives get to declare your decease and they will split up all your shit and spend all your money.

(March 20, 2016 at 1:54 pm)KUSA Wrote: Does anyone here believe that the past exists?

What does that even mean, KUSA, that the past exists?

(March 21, 2016 at 7:18 am)Alex K Wrote:

(March 20, 2016 at 1:54 pm)KUSA Wrote: Does anyone here believe that the past exists?

What does that even mean, KUSA, that the past exists?

There is no such thing as the past, only the present. People act like the past and future exist simultaneously with the present. The past is only a memory and the future is only an expectation.